My Desk is my Castle surprises with insights into cultural and gender-specific differences. The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but must also be studied and understood in the context of its cultural, gender-specific, and field-related surrounding. The focus of this study is a comparative analysis of the use of desks. Desks in insurance companies, banks, administrative authorities, call centers, and design studios in twelve countries on all continents were studied.
Uta Brandes, Michael Erlhoff: My Desk is my Castle
Exploring Personalization Cultures
WICKED! is about blood, violence, and weapons, about sex and genitals, bowels, bodily fluids, and decay. And yes, it is about design. It volatilely teases with physical and intense attractions and anxieties thrown onto everyday objects. One wonders: Who could I give it to?! From a distance we know how disgusting things can get, and usually we feel superiour to the wicked - or the bad taste. But it is thinkable for the observer to actually be revolting - to use objects and living beings in a way close to destruction, supression and decay. Just thinkable. For a moment. And then flip the page.
The leap it actually takes to realize what destruction and degradation are and how many other forms they take in our everyday lives needs quite a while. Our fascination with them is enjoyable from a distance. But right in the middle of the horror - of the waste of our energies - most of us would simply fold. In a hopeless, immobile situation that confronts us with our own destruction we do not know any answers.
WICKED! Design on the Edge of Bad Taste
ISBN 978-3-0346-0722-3
The BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB will be open in New York City from August 3 to October 16 before traveling to Berlin and 6 other cities. Part urban think tank, part community center and public gathering space, the Lab is conceived to inspire public discourse in cities around the world and through the BMW Guggenheim Lab website and online social communities.
BMW GUGGEBHEIM LAB
http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org
TRANSFORMATION
Reading this book is like learning a 3D language!In over 1300 color pictures and drawings this bookoffers an access to the principles of designing 3D forms and surfaces. The basis of this hugecollection of forms is an analysis and structuring of the various types of forms and their interfaces. These form types with their many variations and possibilities to connect to each other can be beautifully memorized while flipping through the book and used later on in any kind of design process.
The leap it actually takes to realize what destruction and degradation are and how many other forms they take in our everyday lives needs quite a while. Our fascination with them is enjoyable from a distance. But right in the middle of the horror - of the waste of our energies - most of us would simply fold. In a hopeless, immobile situation that confronts us with our own destruction we do not know any answers.
WICKED! Design on the Edge of Bad Taste
ISBN 978-3-0346-0722-3
The BMW GUGGENHEIM LAB will be open in New York City from August 3 to October 16 before traveling to Berlin and 6 other cities. Part urban think tank, part community center and public gathering space, the Lab is conceived to inspire public discourse in cities around the world and through the BMW Guggenheim Lab website and online social communities.
BMW GUGGEBHEIM LAB
http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org
TRANSFORMATION
Reading this book is like learning a 3D language!In over 1300 color pictures and drawings this bookoffers an access to the principles of designing 3D forms and surfaces. The basis of this hugecollection of forms is an analysis and structuring of the various types of forms and their interfaces. These form types with their many variations and possibilities to connect to each other can be beautifully memorized while flipping through the book and used later on in any kind of design process.
TRANSFORMATION
Basic Principles and Methodology of Design
ISBN 978-3-7643-0255-6
Softcover, 320 pages
200 color, 30 b/w illus., 50 drawings
16.5 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-0346-0774-2 ENG
EUR net 29.90
200 color, 30 b/w illus., 50 drawings
16.5 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-0346-0774-2 ENG
EUR net 29.90
Manuscript Whereever you are - at a construction site, at your desk, in a conversation with a client - MANUSKRIPT provides the scales, rules and standards for your design project on 300 pages and 21x16 centimeters.
Axel Müller-Schöll: Manuscript
Essentials for the Everydaqy Use of Interior Architects and Designers
Axel Müller-Schöll: Manuscript
Essentials for the Everydaqy Use of Interior Architects and Designers
Hardcover, 304 pages
73 color, 126 b/w illus.
15.5 x 22.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-7820-2 ENG
ISBN 978-3-0346-0598-4 DE
EUR net 29.90
US$ 39.95
73 color, 126 b/w illus.
15.5 x 22.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-7820-2 ENG
ISBN 978-3-0346-0598-4 DE
EUR net 29.90
US$ 39.95
Crucial Words Some essays describe shortcomings of today's architecture, such as atmosphere, memories or desire. Others - such as city branding, globalisation or wheelchairs - focus on the consequences of the new conditions in which architecture has to operate. Many writers draw the same conclusions: tiring of a perpetual hunt for novelty, they plead for the enduring values of architecture.
Gert Wingardh, Rasmus Waern: Crucial Words
Conditions for contemporary architecture
Gert Wingardh, Rasmus Waern: Crucial Words
Conditions for contemporary architecture
Softcover, 204 pages
21 color, 4 b/w illus.
17.0 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-8645-0 ENG
EUR net 24.90
US$ 39.95
21 color, 4 b/w illus.
17.0 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-8645-0 ENG
EUR net 24.90
US$ 39.95
Basics Timber Construction This volume presents the building material timber in all of its facets and explains the fundamental principles of timber construction. It describes the most important building components and their constructive possibilities, specifically as they pertain to building with timber.
Ludwig Steiger: Basics Timber Construction
Ludwig Steiger: Basics Timber Construction
Softcover, 80 pages
many color illus.
15.5 x 22.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-8102-8 ENG
ISBN 978-3-7643-8084-7 DE
EUR net 12.90
US$ 16.50
many color illus.
15.5 x 22.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-8102-8 ENG
ISBN 978-3-7643-8084-7 DE
EUR net 12.90
US$ 16.50
Architecture – A Synoptic Vision In an overview diagram, the various different movements of architecture, together with their associated major figures and structures, are visually situated in their historical and chronological context. Including booklet.
Adrian Meyer, Susanne Kuhlbrodt: Architecture – A Synoptic Vision
A Prospectus of Developments from 1900 to Today
Adrian Meyer, Susanne Kuhlbrodt: Architecture – A Synoptic Vision
A Prospectus of Developments from 1900 to Today
Softcover, 22 pages
6 b/w illus., 15 drawings
18.0 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-8879-8 ENG
ISBN 978-7643-8711-2 DE
EUR net 19.90
US$ 29.95
6 b/w illus., 15 drawings
18.0 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-7643-8879-8 ENG
ISBN 978-7643-8711-2 DE
EUR net 19.90
US$ 29.95
Designbusiness Gründen und Entwickeln In der Reihe 'Erfolgreich als Designer' liefern Joachim Kobuss und Alexander Bretz mit dem Titel 'Designbusiness Gründen und Entwickeln' ein umfangreiches Werkzeug für Designer, die in Deutschland ein Unternehmen gründen möchten. Es werden die wirtschaftlichen Perspektiven des Umfeldes beschrieben, die individuellen Perspektiven unterschiedlicher Designertypen, Unternehmenskonzepte mit ihren rechtlichen Grundlagen, das Marketing und die Zukunftsaussichten.
Joachim Kobuss, Alexander Bretz: Erfolgreich als Designer – Designbusiness Gründen und Entwickeln
Joachim Kobuss, Alexander Bretz: Erfolgreich als Designer – Designbusiness Gründen und Entwickeln
Softcover, 368 pages
3 b/w illus.
17.0 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-0346-0672-1 DE
EUR net 34.90
3 b/w illus.
17.0 x 24.0 cm
ISBN 978-3-0346-0672-1 DE
EUR net 34.90
Mapping Design Research The essential reader with the landmark texts of the last 50 years dealing with the fundamentals of research in the design disciplines
Simon Grand, Wolfgang Jonas, Ralf Michel: Mapping Design Research
Positions and Perspectives
Simon Grand, Wolfgang Jonas, Ralf Michel: Mapping Design Research
Positions and Perspectives
Hardcover, 256 pages
90 b/w illus., 20 drawings
16.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-0346-0716-2 ENG
EUR net 79.90
90 b/w illus., 20 drawings
16.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-0346-0716-2 ENG
EUR net 79.90
